Ticket Pricing A theater owner wants to divide an 1800-seat theater into three sections, with tickets costing $20, $35, and $50, depending on the section. He wants to have twice as many $20 tickets as the sum of the other kinds of tickets, and he wants to earn $48,000 from a full house. To find how many seats he should have in each section, solve the system of equations
where x, y, and z are the numbers of $20 tickets, $35 tickets, and $50 tickets, respectively.
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